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New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano blows on his hands to keep warm in the sixth-inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Woeful to begin the season the last two years, Boston had its way again at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, staying warm with a second straight win to start the season, 7-4.

The Yankees hadn't lost two in a row at home against anyone to start the year since 1972. The last time the Sox won two to start the year in New York was 1935.

"I get to be a part of this. That's pretty fun," said Shane Victorino, who's 4-for-11 with four RBIs. "To be up 2-0 to start the season that's great. Those guys are missing a lot of guys too. And they're going to be a different team the next time we see them. But we'll take them. Every game counts."

Clay Buchholz fell in line behind Jon Lester's opening day start, while the Yankees lost another key player, Wednesday's starting pitcher Hiroki Kuroda. Even if Kuroda doesn't miss another start, that's piling on.

Kuroda lasted 1 1/3 innings, the shortest start by a Yankees starter since 2011. He tried to grab a hit back up the middle with his pitching hand, and was out of whack afterward.

The Yankees diagnosed Kuroda with a right middle-finger contusion. So far, all of the Yankees' misfortunes are helping the Sox.

Buchholz's first start of 2013 saw him last seven innings on 94 pitches, with one run allowed on six hits. He struck out four and walked two. He had a 1-0 lead after one inning, a 2-0 lead after two and a 6-0 lead going into the bottom of the third.

“The last couple starts of spring, my main goal was to throw the two-seamer to both sides of the plate and be able to cut both sides," Buchholz said. "I didn’t throw a lot of arm-side cutters today. Being able to throw two-seamers into lefties and the comebacks to righties and the cut gloveside, it was big and basically where I left off."

It was all the outfield in the four-run third. Shane Victorino plated one run, Jackie Bradley Jr. another on his first major league hit and Jacoby Ellsbury brought in a pair more.

The Yankees got back in the game on one swing from Vernon Wells, one of the players they're rolling the dice on with so many regulars hurt. He hit a three-run homer off Alfredo Aceves in the bottom of the eighth to make it 7-4.

That made it a save situation for Sox closer Joel Hanrahan, who gave up a leadoff single to Eduardo Nunez. Nunez had just been serenaded with a call or two of "We want Jeter" in the top of the ninth for booting a grounder. A grounder, strikeout and pop to right ended the game.